F5 Solution For Microsoft Exchange Server2010 Visual Brief

F5 Application Ready Solution for Microsoft Exchange 2010

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F5 Application Ready Solution for Microsoft Exchange 2010 – what’s new?

• Client connections are all routed through the Exchange middle-tier (Client Access Servers – CAS)

• Address Book Service on CAS replaces DSProxy interface and handles all Outlook Directory connections

• See following diagram…

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F5 Application Ready Solution for Microsoft Exchange 2010 – feature overview

• Enhance availability and scale up through load balancing• Microsoft recommends hardware load balancing for

• Multi-role Exchange servers• Deployments with more than 8 Exchange nodes

• Accelerate• Caching and compression Web client content increases application

response times and user capacity• Off-load SSL (25% savings of server CPU utilization)• Up to 90% faster attachment downloads• Reduce SSL connections by RPC over HTTP

• Secure• Pre/post logon checks for Web clients• First reputation-based perimeter spam filter

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Store Access PathsAll roads go through the middle tier

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Exchange 2007 Exchange 2010

Exchange Business

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Exchange Components (EWS, ActiveSync, UM, OWA, Mailbox Agents,

Transport Agents)

Outlook, other MAPI clients

Entourage, 3rd party apps

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Exchange Core Business Logic

Exchange Business

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Exchange Components (EWS, ActiveSync, UM, OWA, Mailbox Agents,

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Entourage, 3rd party apps

MAPI RPC

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For more information…

• F5 solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server Web site• http://www.f5.com/solutions/applications/microsoft/exchange-server/

• Deployment Guide• http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/f5-exchange-2010-dg.pdf

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